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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Barnes 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]
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Isolation Hospital, Mortlake. Total available beds, 40. Number of Diseases that can be concurrently
treated, 4.
* Removed to Poor Law Infirmary at Richmond.
t Three cases removed to Mount Vernon Hospital, one to Richmond Hospital, one to Brompton and Royal
National Hospital for Consumption, Ventnor.
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| Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases Notified. | Total Cases notified in each locality. | Total Cases removed to Hospital. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages. | At ages—Years. | 1 Barnes. | 2 M'rtl'ke | |||||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25 | 25 to 45. | '5 to 65 | 65 and upw'ds. | ||||||
| Small pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 42 | - | 9 | 28 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 14 | 28 | 40 | |
| Erysipelas | 14 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 1 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 46 | - | 5 | 31 | 9 | 1 | - | - | 23 | 23 | 37 | |
| Typhus Fever | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Enteric Fever | 4 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 3 | |
| Relapsing Fever | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Continued Fever | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Puerperal Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | |
| Phthisis | Under Tuberculosis | 12 | - | - | - | 5 | 6 | 1 | - | 4 | 8 | 7* |
| Regulations, 1908 | ||||||||||||
| Ditto 1911 | 12 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 8 | - | - | 7 | 6+ | ||
| Others | 14 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | - | 5 | 9 | - | |
| Totals | 145 | - | 14 | 66 | 22 | 26 | 10 | 7 | 60 | 85 | 94 | |